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The "Off-Facebook Activity" tool lets you see — and somewhat control — what other sites and apps tell Facebook about you

The long read: Bulgaria in the 1980s became known as the ‘virus factory’, where hundreds of malicious computer programs were unleashed to wreak havoc. But who was writing them, and why?

“We value your privacy…”, the clichéd beginning of many a privacy notice. I value my own online privacy, and whenever I read that phrase as part of a website consent banner it sounds like lip service…

Supporters say it would help find kidnapping victims or runaway children. Critics fear that it would further extend the government's ability to secretly surveil people.

The classified military documents originated on Discord before spreading elsewhere on social media

The country's data-protection regulator has serious privacy concerns over the technology.

Clearview AI's CEO said police have used his tools over a million times and claimed his company's database of scraped social media images now tops 30 billion.

In a free society, people should not have their private correspondence constantly examined. U.S. lawmakers, we would hope, understand that individuals have the right to a private conversation without…

Police were investigating his neighbor. A judge gave officers access to all his security-camera footage, including inside his home.

Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.

A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.

Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button.

«track the movements of billions of people via their phones with a constant stream of data purchased directly from Twitter.»

To replace the cookie in Chrome and Android, Google has an offering for the world called “Privacy Sandbox." Here's an exclusive peek into how it will work.

Signal recently killed SMS support as part of that mission.

The Markup found that tax preparation services including TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block have sent users’ personal financial information to Facebook through the Meta Pixel.

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